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John Tomesco, vice president of global enterprise market development at HP,
said that the Department of Defense uses the access card system for staff
entering the building.

"This is linked to a certificate, so you can swipe or enter your card into a
multi-function printer, enter a Pin for the public key infrastructure that will
validate you as a user and also validate the applications you can have access
to," he said.

"Basically it is a very sophisticated level of authentication that was
required in the public sector around Presidential Directive 12."

Tomeso explained that the document capture system was designed for brokerage
or capital markets that needed to be compliant with Securities and Exchange
Commission rule 17a.

"Any communication that takes place between the broker and a customer needs
to have the ability to be tracked and traced, whether it is a fax, email or
actual document," he said. "There has to be an audit trail so we developed a
system for that."

HP has also developed a print system for retail outlets based on their
marketing needs.

"Our retail marketing automation application was developed specifically for
the output in a retail environment, whether it be shelf labels, in-store flyers
that go out to the customer or any kind of promotional material," Tomesco said.

The device allows retailers to decide whether they need to print marketing
documents centrally and distribute them to their stores or actually print it in
the stores themselves.

"When you consider that some of the retailers may have 1,000 stores with
different price zones and different ethnic backgrounds it becomes an issue,"
said Tomesco.

"If you want to turn over promotion cycles very quickly this becomes a tool
that helps reduce waste, reduce cost, increase the effectiveness of your
promotions and increase revenue."

HP has also developed the SP400 handheld scanner and printer that can print
directly onto packaging.

The device has wireless capabilities to send scanned information back to a
computer or upload new information to be printed on packaging.

However, Tomesco said that the new systems are only a small part of what is
currently being developed by HP.

"Besides the eight we have announced today there are probably another 20 in
the pipeline at various stages of development," he said.